Editing Wenlock Edge (section)

==Geology==
[[File:Llandovery and Wenlock Fossils Pocock Whitehead 1948 Figure 27 (Xylodes articulatus).jpg|thumb|left|150px|A fossil coral from the Wenlock Limestone<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pocock |first1=Roy Woodhouse |last2=Whitehouse |first2=T.H. |title=British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland 2nd Edition |date=1948 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) |location=London |page=53 |url=https://archive.org/details/WelshBorderland2ndEdnBritishRegionalGeologyImages}}</ref>]]
The "world famous Wenlock Limestone outcrops"  are amongst "Britain’s most important geological sites".<ref name=nateng/> The limestone quarries in the North "demonstrate the best examples of [[reef]] development during the [[Silurian]] Period in Britain."<ref name=nateng/> Many species of [[brachiopods]], [[trilobite]]s and [[ostracod]] (microscopic crustaceans) were first found at Wenlock<ref name=nateng/> and most of the known [[Wenlock Series#Silurian fauna|Wenlock group Silurian fauna]] comes from here.
[[Richard Corfield (scientist)|Richard Corfield]] also gave Wenlock Edge as an example of the most spectacular reef building the world has ever known.<ref name=iot>{{cite web|last=In Our Time|title=The Permian-Triassic Boundary|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007r285|publisher=BBC|date=28 June 2007|access-date=30 June 2013}}</ref><br />
The reef was formed in shallow subtropical seas about 425 million years ago when the area was south of the equator at about the same latitude as the [[Seychelles]] is today.<ref name=beeb>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/03/21/geological_tour_wenlock_edge.shtml|publisher=BBC Shropshire|title=Nature Features|date=October 2008|access-date=30 June 2013}}</ref>
A walk by a BBC journalist in 2008 found abundant fossilised [[crinoids]] (sea lilies) and brachiopods.<ref name=beeb/> The [[Wenlock (Silurian)|Wenlock]] Epoch of the [[Silurian]] Period is named for the rocks of Wenlock Edge.